2018 NBA OFFSEASON

25 teams are dysfunctional

exactly

allow me to break it down

1. the celtics destroyed the sixers in the playoffs a month ago
2. the celtics are adding kyrie and hayward
3. the sixers are adding kawhi and losing prob redick and saric

how does this not shift the competitive balance even further in the celtics favor

4 ben simmons was utterly exposed

― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, June 24, 2018 11:20 AM (two hours ago)

because it's totally possible that the sixers have the 3 best players in that series?

for real. kawhi, assuming healthy, is better than any one player on the celtics. celtics definitely deeper in this hypothetical though, but that matters less in the playoffs.

arguing about the future usually requires someone to invoke hovercraft and personal jet packs, or their nba equivalent

not sure why having the 3 best players is a metric that matters if having the 2 best players didn't

fwiw i dont think simmons will be better than tatum or that embiid played better than horford, but with a little time i think embiid will be better than horford and simmons makes some leaps. shit's all speculative at this point obv.

not sure why having the 3 best players is a metric that matters if having the 2 best players didn't

― ciderpress, Sunday, June 24, 2018 2:09 PM (thirty-six minutes ago

3 >2 i just checked

checks out

check out this video of lagoon getting owned by LOGIC

o shit

i....don’t think the sixers would have the three best players in that series.

(they wouldnt, but kawhi would be the best)

they might not, but it's not crazy. kawhi is an MVP-level player, and simmons and embiid are young enough and good enough that imagining them being at that level in a year or two isn't inconceivable

obviously the same could be said for the celtics kids

yeah i mean tbh the suggestion was so ludicrous i didnt even bother to engage

simmons is actively bad and embiid is desperately searching for any shred of maturity

like they are both so beatable, total marks at this point

that team the celtics beat them with my lord lol, like everyones all wait til philly ages a lil but they got beat by a younger teammmmmm lol

tatum is ~2 years younger than simmons! and 4 years younger than embiid

brown is younger than both of them too!

conceding the point overall, yung celtics are better than yung sixers right now. just feel like we cant overlook the role of the celts vets esp horford in leading that team. and also adding kawhi to the sixers would significantly alter the equation.

yeah I mean young dudes struggling in their first playoff appearance is not something that is new. the celtics seemed impervious to this in that series but obviously someone has to win the series, can’t discount the brad effect either

the fultz question mark is still huge too

I do think as things stand now the celtics are the huge fav to make the finals, just throwing out possibilities. I think it’s silly to suggest that the possibility embiid and simmons become unstoppable forces is not in play, so hard to predict young dudes

You guys are crazy. Obviously at full strength both teams would continuously tie for eternity.

when does basketball start ugh

this motherfucking league got the nerve to wait another 4 months, fuck

also got to wait a week before free agency really pops off

it's dumb make the NBA year round the people demand it

they gotta reinflate the basketball dude it takes time

embiid is not that young I don't think he has as much upside left as ppl think, he's already pretty good tho

The WNBA is supposed to fill the gap. Except it doesn't. Put it on free network TV on weekends and it could get a bit more traction. Instead we get baseball and golf with a pinch of tennis thrown in.

tennis is good i recommend it

wnba is ludicrously not on easy tv

embiid is great but I really worry about him going forward, he has such a big frame, feel like weight and injury will be big problems

the world cup is on guys, p good

The only World that matters is Free

Ronald William Artest, Jr. would like a word.

Everything good is Free.

because it's totally possible that the sixers have the 3 best players in that series?

― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:05 (yesterday) Permalink

2017-2018
|                | PER  | G  |
|----------------|------|----|
| Kawhi Leonard  | 26.0 |  9 |
| Kyrie Irving   | 25.0 | 60 |
| Joel Embiid    | 22.9 | 63 |
| Ben Simmons    | 20.0 | 81 |
| Gordon Hayward |  7.3 |  1 |

I just started working on 2018-2019 models. My PER and G models are far from finished, but only Ben Simmons and Kyrie Irving are projected to have a 2018-2019 PER greater than their career average and only Gordon Hayward is projected to play more games. They are good but extremely flawed players.

Oops.

I just started working on 2018-2019 models. My PER and G models are far from finished, but only Ben Simmons and Kyrie Irving are projected to have a 2018-2019 PER greater than their career average and only Kawhi Leonard and Gordon Hayward are projected to play more games. They are good but extremely flawed players.

uh lol wtf is this jump shot

.@mikal_bridges getting some work in with @coachGH3 !! pic.twitter.com/0CmRMkSJvE

— Jay Wright (@VUCoachJWright) June 25, 2018

ew

is this your nba ready d and 3 guy

the sixers are a shambles

uh they traded that guy tho

I thought they traded for him

both lol

Philadelphia 76ers (from L.A. Lakers via Phoenix;[B] traded to Phoenix[b])